OF BIRDS. 13° 
They a are often taken by faeans of dogs, for 
though they run and Aly fafter for fome time, they 
— foon become tired, perch upon the high trees, 
and fuffer themfelves to be killed witha gun. 
The Indians make an elegant clothing of their 
feathers ; they work the webs like matting, in 
threads made from hemp, or the inner bark of 
a glofly. 
. the mulberry-tree. — Thefe ae appear very 7 
We make fans and umbrellas with the tail. 
The Turkey in a.domettic or tame ftate, ae 
from twelve to fifteen eggs, and fits a month: 
~ if the eggs be addle, fhe will fit fo long as almoft: 
 todeftroyherfelf. Sometimes, after bringing up one 
brood, fhe will lay again, but the fecond hatch 
feldom fucceeds in England : the cold and wet . 
. weather begins before the yeu are Hone and | 
kills them. : 
Hen Turkeys may be made to fit in almoft any | 
fituation, and if they have built-a neft in a place | 
~expofed to Foxes and Weefels, it will be proper 
to take the eggs away as they are laid; by this — 
means they will fometimes lay a greater number. 
It is eafily known when they have done laying, 
-by their continuing on the neft; if then a 
new neft be made, the eggs placed in it, and the 
as | ~ female confined there a few days, fhe will fit as 

‘conftantly 
